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The referendum on the Treaty astablishing a Constitution for Europe in France - analyses of the results and consequences
Miklošová, Kateřina ; Perottino, Michel (advisor) ; Kasáková, Zuzana (referee)
Diploma thesis "The referendum on the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe in France - analyses of the results and consequences" deals with the theme of the referendum as a method of decision making in general, but also focuses on the referendum in the context of the European integration process. The French referendum on the European constitution is analysed from the point of view of the campaign. Special attention is paid to the assesment of the results. The main purpose of the theses is to evaluate and sum up the impact of this unique event on the situation in France and European integration process in general. The singularity of the French referendum is demonstrated on the special reaction of the European Council, European Commission and European Parliament, which followed the negative result of the referendum. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Security Enforcement in Northern Ireland 1971-1978: Low Intensity Operations
Moravec, Luděk ; Kasáková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Šlosarčík, Ivo (referee)
Bachelor thesis titled "Security Enforcement in Northern Ireland 1971-1978: Low Intensity Operations" is focused on strategy and tactics of key actors of Ulster conflict in relation to broader concept of asymmetric warfare. It summarizes basic concepts which are subsequently applied on cases of Provisional Irish Republican Army and Unionist Paramilitaries and first and foremost on the case of British army. The most significant is the second part of this work, where is through roughly examined the role of military as of the strategic tool in countering terrorism and limitations of such tool. This segment is enriched of short excursion through historical experience of British army in imperial policing and campaigns after Second World War. Special chapter is than devoted to crucial aspects of her operations in Northern Ireland during the first half of 1970s. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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European audiovisual politics: public service broadcasting and the competition rules of European
Friedrichová, Magdaléna ; Šlosarčík, Ivo (advisor) ; Kasáková, Zuzana (referee)
For the broad problematic of European public broadcasting service (PBS), we chose a rather narrow view point of its financing. The competition law in EU, which is called by many an economic constitution for its force and prime role in the process of European integration, has much larger impacts than solely economic ones. The respect of competition rules in PBS financing can also indicate a good level of political end economical media independence. This thesis consists of three main parts. The first part treats PBS as a fraction of a far larger field of general economic interest services. Those services, essential in European social model, are represented on EU level legislation mainly as exceptions of strict competition rules. Regarding this topic, we follow the development in practice of the European court of justice. We follow the struggle between two conceptions - the "compensatory" and the "state aid" conception which ended in compromise Altmark judgment of the European court of justice in 2003. The problems of services of general economic interest and its place in European national societies represent a strong social dimension, to which PBS add also the cultural and national one. Beside general articles of treaties, the key documents for PBS in EU are the Amsterdam protocol and the 2001 PBS...
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Regional and Structural Policy of the EU in Portugal, Spain and Greece
Šejvl, Filip ; Urban, Luděk (advisor) ; Kasáková, Zuzana (referee)
The purpose of this study is to evaluate activities of the regional policy of the European Union in countries, which have the biggest experience with this policy. From my point of view these are: Portugal, Spain, and Greece. The paper is principally focusing on the individual countries and on some of their regions. It compares the needs of these regions and tries to evaluate the activity of the regional policy in the area. The study also tries to discover common elements of the three countries in their experience with the regional policy. It tries to find an answer whether the Structural Funds have helped to economic and social conversion. Main evaluation factors of this study are economic growth, the gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, and employment.
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The United Kingdom and the European Integration: Influence of foreign trade and monetary politics on the British attitude towards Europe between the years 1941 and 1973
Matera, Jan ; Kasáková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Váška, Jan (referee)
The master's thesis The United Kingdom and the European Integration: Influence of foreign trade and monetary politics on the British attitude towards Europe between the years 1941 and 1973 explores the relationship of the United Kingdom towards European integration in a period from the end of the Second World War to the point of becoming a member of the European Economic Community in 1973. The relationship of the United Kingdom with Europe is studied by analysing international monetary and trade politics of the United Kingdom, its economic standing in the world and comparative strength of Pound Sterling. All of these variables played a key role in the development of aforementioned relationship. The aim of the thesis is to ascertain the role played by international monetary and trade politics of the United Kingdom in relation to European integration. The research itself is divided into three chapters and overall defined and underpinned by conjoining two theories of hegemonic stability and aspects of realist school of political economy. First chapter examines the emergence and development of Bretton Woods system and American economic hegemony. Following chapter explores the relationship between the United Kingdom and the Sterling Area. Final chapter deals with British economic relationship towards...
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LEARNING PROCESSES DURING CZECH REGIONAL ACTORS' PARTICIPATION IN INTERREG PROGRAMMES
Basařová, Tereza ; Kasáková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Hauser, Jan (referee)
This diploma thesis examines the participation of Czech regional actors in the transnational and interregional branches of the INTERREG program in 2007-2013, using organizational learning theory. It focuses on learning processes on individual, group, and organizational levels. To a smaller extent, it also examines dissemination of knowledge towards other actors on the local and European level. The aim of the thesis is to find out whether these learning processes take place on all the mentioned levels and also to uncover the main obstacles of these processes. The method of the research is a questionnaire survey combined with semi-structured interviews. The research reveals that both individual and group learning take place during the projects. The most common barriers are complications stemming from differing environments of the actors (different political, institutional, legal, or administrative environments). Organizational learning takes place as well, but to a smaller extent than learning on the preceding levels. The main problem is the preservation of tacit knowledge. The research also suggests that effective dissemination of knowledge towards other local actors takes place as well. However, the relevance of the final project outcomes for other EU actors appears to be rather low.
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Promoting the interests in the European Parliament: case study of the Passenger Name Record directive
Wágnerová, Iveta ; Kasáková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Weiss, Tomáš (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to find out whose interests are promoted by the European Parliament Committee rapporteurs in a legislative process. The thesis tries to show on the case study of approving the Passenger Name Record (PNR) directive if the rapporteurs of the directive who influence the most the negotiations are influenced by their national party, the national government, the EP political group or by their own ideological interests. It was supposed that a very political topic as the directive PNR undoubtedly is, would be influenced the most by the national governments which alongside France tried to react on the terrorist attack in Paris in 2015 by adopting the directive and improving the security situation in the Europe. Through the interviews with the representatives of the EP political groups and content analysis of the relevant documents, the thesis concludes that in the concrete case of PNR directive, the interests of the governments are not the most significant but the ideological interests of the rapporteurs are. They are either in line with the interest of the EU citizens' better security situation or better protection of their personal data. The rapporteurs voted according to ability to push their interests to the directive proposal.
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United Kingdom and the Israeli-Palestine Peace Process
Semera, David ; Rovná, Lenka (advisor) ; Kasáková, Zuzana (referee)
The diploma thesis United Kingdom and the Israeli-Palestine peace process is focused on British foreign policy towards the situation in Israel/Palestine and the ongoing peace process between 1997 and 2001. It addresses the main assumptions for the approach of the Tony Blair's government and their fulfilling. It is based on the analysis of speeches and documents issued by the Labour Party or by the government of the United Kingdom, on which it at first defines the assumptions about the activities of the United Kingdom on the international level, which it understands as commitments towards British and the electorate. Further, it presents the major steps made towards the situation in Israel/Palestine, as well as the long-term motives of Tony Blair government's approach to this area, which can be seen in speeches and other materials. It then examines whether the policy towards the Israeli-Palestine peace process matched the outlined assumptions and expectations. Subsequently, it deals with the causes of the found differences and discusses the importance of this topic for the government of Tony Blair and its possibilities get more involved in these issues. In the last section it analyses the other possible foreign policy interests of the United Kingdom that influenced the approach towards...
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The Olympic Games in Barcelona 1992 as a factor of changes in Catalan nationalistic discourse of political parties
Balík, Jiří ; Matějka, Ondřej (advisor) ; Kasáková, Zuzana (referee)
Interrelation between sports and politics in the specific case of the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992 offers a wide range of opportunities to strengthen nationalist tendencies of the Catalan society. This thesis examines how the organization of this event affected the development of Catalan nationalistic discourse of political parties. These changes are analysed on two levels. The first level is the evolution over time - the thesis compares the periods before and after the Olympics and looks at trends across each period. The second level is the development in the level of debate - the thesis looks at the category of political parties, at the category of Catalan politics and at the category of the Spanish nationwide politics, while it analyses the moves of the topics and trends across the levels. Thus, the thesis examines trends of the political discourse in the electoral programs, in speeches at annual meetings at the level of the Catalan parliament and in speeches at annual meetings at the level of national Spanish Parliament. The basic parameters of the research work are themes of language policy, cultural policy, the issue of state structure juristic reform, linguistic forms of the discourses and relation to the Olympic Games. The main basis of this work is the contribution of sporting events...
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Irish political parties euroscepticism analysis
Chrudimská, Barbora ; Šlosarčík, Ivo (advisor) ; Kasáková, Zuzana (referee)
Ireland is generally seen as one of the biggest supporters of the European Union. Irish public opinion researches have been showing long-term and extremely positive attitudes to the European integration. The pro-European consensus is also known among the local political parties. Moreover, at the end of the 20th century, a strong economic growth had started and the Ireland quickly became a model example of how positive impact the European integration may have on its Member states. European issues therefore did not attract too much attention in the local political discourse. This changed in the early 21st century, when the increasing public euroscepticism began observable. The thesis examines whether selected Irish political parties adapted their rhetoric and actions to ever more critical mood of voters. These are Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party. The thesis covers three critical moments of the Irish European integration, namely the Nice Treaty, the Lisbon Treaty and the Irish debt crisis. It searches for negative comments about the EU and European integration of examined political parties in the campaigns before the referendum on European issues, as well as in their election statements to the Irish parliamentary elections, also taking place in the selected period. The aim of the thesis is...
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